Setting Goals & Building Solutions...
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RESPECT Intellectual Club of the Buduburum Refugee Camp in Accra Ghana
How would you describe your community?
Our community is a nuclear settlement of Liberian refugees living in Ghana. It has a lot of trees, and major hospital, so many schools and churches. It is divided into 12 zones which were formerly areas. The zones are headed by zonal heads and supervise by the Liberian Refugee Welfare Council and Camp manager being the master.
What do you like most about your community? Least?
We like the social activities that go on each and every day on the camp such as music and dance competition etc. What we like least is the poor sanitation problem.
What are your concerns for the local community? What problems do you see? List five to eight concerns.
We see a problem of food, lack of safe drinking water, enough educational facilities, training centers, transportation problem and shelter or electricity.
What goals could set to lessen the impact of these problems or eliminate your concerns? Use this space to sketch out ideas.
Food
Drinking water
Educational facilities
Training center
Transportation
Shelter
Electricity
Employment
Now, take your notes and ideas and formulate them into eight goals for your local community to be reached by 2015.
1. Food
2. Provide safe drinking water.
3. Improve educational facilities and make leaning environment
conducive.
4. making transportation means accessible to all in all forms
5. Improve and provide shelters for the peoples.
6. Make electricity available to all.
7. provide employment
8. Sustainable development.
Trail Ridge Middle School of Longmont, Colorado
Describe your community….People take advantage of job opportunities, good place to raise kids, good law enforcement, we have some gang activity but overall it is a safe place to live, we have a kind community with mixed socioeconomic status, we have a wide variety of cultures/races, people like to do their own thing and focus their energy in specific areas
What do you like most about your community? People are friendly, take care of the environment, lots of schools, we have both city and rural areas, the “unsafe” areas are far from where we live, we have facilities that help the poor
Least? Kids don’t appreciate education, schools have different funding, there is too much development, there are signs of pollution
What are your concerns? Gangs, stray animals, money, building too much, economy could crash, poor eating habits, underage drinking, disrespect in relationships, vandalism, poor self-concept for a lot of people, litering
Goals
- Increase safety measures and law enforcement
- Healthier food choices in schools and the community
- Decrease pollution
- Increase aid to homeless people so they can get back on their feet
- Maintain open spaces
- Increase technology to prevent fraud and school violence
- Keep your city clean, take pride in it
- Understand and appreciate our differences
SEE
Sources/signs of pollution – brown haze across the front range, exhaust from vehicles, liter
Specific environmental problems? Lots of development,
REFLECT
Yes we still have work to be done, we are doing a lot of good things, but there is room for improvement
ACT
Ideas
- pick up liter
- plant 34 trees, one for each of us
- Organize an Earth Day celebration
- Design a solar powered car
- Make stuff from old stuff (recycle thing)
- Get more alternative energy sources going like solar power
- Have a “black out” day where we use as little extra energy as possible
- Help out at the humane society
Heritage School of Dehradun, India
Country Day School of Escazu, Costa Rica
Things that we like about Costa Rica:
- Fresh Air
- The Mountains
- Weather
- Beaches
- Temperature
- soccer
- food
- Nature
- The Papagayo peninsula
- security
- sun
Things that we don’t like about Costa Rica:
- Holes in the roads
- Pollution
- People killing
- Never snows
- Poverty
- Traffic
- Trash
- The roads
- Homework
- Racism
- Hills
- Lots of cars
- Crime
- Loss of habitat
- Consumerism
- Stray dogs
- Mosquitoes
- Chopping wood
- Homeless people
- Little shacks
- People without food
- Contamination
What we would like to do:
- Help with pollution
- Help people who are in poverty
- Fix the roads
- Help stray dogs
- Stop people from chopping wood
- Help the homeless people
- Clean trash from the streets
- Clean up beaches
The Miracle Corners of the World Trust Songea Education, Health & Youth Housing Community Village
In the past few days we have had a tremendous discussion about goal setting and general MDG’S. and many participants presented their personal goals and also goals for their community. During classes we came out with this “goal setting means deciding what would like to achieve over a certain period of time and carefully planning the steps you will take to achieve the goals” goals represent a commitment to action. They help you to plan and organize time and your life more effectively. You can have short term, medium term or long term goals. Or you can say goal setting is really a question of having a purpose in life. What is it you want to do with your life.
Here is one of the completed work sheet from a certain group member.
Setting Goals, Building Solutions Work sheet
How would you describe your community?
My community is a remote community in a small town of Songea . The living conditions in this town are not conductive. It is not a modern community. There is one school in my community, and there is big number of children who are not attending school. The lack of water and electricity are the problems facing my community. Also bad road infrastructures, lack of a health center ( dispensary ), a nearby police station are some of the problems facing this community.
What do you like most about your community? Least?
I like our community’s environments Mostly, it’s natural and welcoming. I also like how my community’s life style. My community possesses rich social and family values. Children are taught to respect and help their elders. Parents are friendly and willing to share the little wealth they have with their big number of children.
What are your concerns for the local community? What problems do you see?
The problems I see in my community are, lack of job opportunities, lack of enough schools, lack of dispensary, lack of electricity, shortage of water tapes, bad road infrastructures, lack of education enthusiasm among youth community members, lack of self sustainability , domestic violence and property rights.
What goals could you set to lessen the impact of these problems or eliminate your concerns?
1) Stop domestic violence
2) Eradicate bad ideology among society and make sure they value education.
3) Create more job opportunities
4) Provide clean and safe water
5) Build more schools and health centers
6) Ensure each house is installed with electric power
Take your notes and ideas and formulate them into eight goals for your local community to be reached by 2015.
1) Eliminate domestic violence
2) Build more schools
3) Build more health centers
4) Bring power to each and every house
5) Supply water to each house
6) Ensure health services are closely available
7) Each child attends primary school
8) Ensure that statutory laws are followed
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